Poultry roost



1,627,268 a. 1'. BOUMA POULTRY noosT Filed Feb/11s. 1925 May 3 1927..

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Patented May 3, 17927.

UNITED; STATES.v

BENJAMIN 'r. BOUMA, or nrNnvrLLn, iowA.

POULTRY noos'r.

Application filed February' This invention is an improvementon` they devices illustrated, described and claimed in Letters Patent of the United StatesfNumber 1,246,705, grantedto me November. 13, 1917, and has for itsprimary objectto pro vide an improved construction for sanitary poultry roosts in which more effective means is provided for preventing the entrance of dirt and other foreignA matter to the pans holding the disinfectant material.

A further object of the present invention is to simplify the construction, especially with respect to the mounting of the perch bars 'in the sills, and to provide improve ments in the'means for filling the pans with disinfectant. Y -x My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in the claim and. illustrated bythe accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevationof a poultry roost embodying my improvements. Figure 2 is a plan view'of the same, portions being T broken away. Figure 3 is an enlarged crossscction on the line 3 8 of VFigure 2, and Figure i is an enlarged longitudinal section on the line 1 -4 of the same view. Figure 5 is a detail perspective view showing a different means for supporting a perch In the construction of the devices as shown the numerals 10, 11 designate parallelsills, which may be supported in any suitable manner, as by means of legs 12. Each sill 10, 11 preferably consists of two elongated stripsof wood or other suitable material between which is disposed a longitudinally extending strip 13 of felt, libre board or other suitable absorbent material, known as the wick. At their lower inner margins the strips comprising the .sills 10, 11 are beveled, cut away or grooved, whereby a channel 14 is formed at the base of and extending below the wick. Mounted below each sill 10. 11, and embracing the lower portion thereof, is a pan 15, which pan also enclosesthe channel 14 and the lower portion of the wick 13, which may extend below the lower man gins of the sills and below the channels 11i. Near the end of each sill is formed an opening 1G which communicates with the channel 14' thereof and through which a suitable liquid disinfectant may be introduced to the pans 15. The disinfectant is retained the pans, and the wicks 13 normally extend 1a, 1925. -seriai No. 3,061.

into the disinfectant in the pans and draw it upwardly between the stripscompr-ising the sills.` The sides of the sills 10, 11 are in this instance Vformed with longitudinally eXtending grooves 17, 18, intb which the upper side margins of the pansl extend, and said pans are held in place by means of tacks or small nails 19 driven throughthem and into the strips of the sills. The overhanging upper edges of the grooves 1T', 18 protect and cover 'the upper margins of the pans and prevent thev entrance of dirt and foreign lmatter thereto. The pans also may be'fitted closely to the ends ofthe sills Vas shown in Figure 4, and the ends of the sills may' be formed with grooves 2O into which the' end margins of the tops of the pans extend;A The sills 10, 11 are provided with nails such as 21 extending through the strips and the wicks 13 to hold. the parts together.

Each sill 10, 11 is formed with a series of spaced upwardly opening notches 22, in' alinement in the two sills, and in these notches perch bars 23 are adapted to be re! movably and replaceably mounted, whereby they are supported by and between the sills. Each perch bar 23 preferably is formed in a manner similar to the sills, of two strips of wood separated by a wick 24 extending downwardly into a channel 25 ,extending lengthwise at thebottom` of the bar, which is embraced by a pan 26 to hold the disinfectant and pass it to the wick. Inv each perch bar is formed one or more vertical filling holes 27 extending .from its top Vto and communicating with the channel 25 andV forming a means for introducingthe disinfectant to the pans. The filling holes 27 are normally covered by means of pieces 28 Sii of tin or the like attached by a nail or tack 29 in such manner that they may be turned aside to disclose the hole for'the filling operation, but when in normal position cover such holes sov that dirt and the like cannot enter.

The filling holes 16 for the sills preferably are formed at the bottom of the notches 22 nearest one end of the sill, and normally they are covered by a perch bar such as 23 and the entrance of foreign substances is thereby prevented, the perch bar being removed temporarily for the filling operation.

This roost may be made of any desired size, with any desired number of perch bars, each ofV any desired length. The perch bar preferably is of somewhat smaller dimensions than the supporting sills, vand the said perch barsalso have the longitudinal grooves 30, V31 in their sides,A with oVerhanging-upper edges into which the edges olf the pans Q6 are received and held by nails or' tacks 32.

In Figure 5 the perch bar Q3 is'formed with the grooves in its sides to receive the edges of the pan 26, as above described. A

supporting hook 33 islforinedofA a singleV piece of Wire and is attached to the end of the Ybar byxhaving its ends-tembedded `in the sides ,thereof and then bent to extend along the bottonrothe 'panand `upthc 'end of the bar, the central portionheingrccurved toforina supporting hook by `Wliichthe bar may be: suspended from lany suitableV support.

-I claim as -rny- .invention- ,A `device of the class described, compris ingv spaced sills adapted to contain a liquid germicide, said sills being formed with spaced notches opening to their upper niarginsrand perch bars mounted in said notches and also adapted to contain a liquid germiclde,'.sa1dfs1lls-being iorined with [illlng holes located 1n certain of said notches and adapted to `lie-covered by the perch bars 'when' 

